Consumer Friendly (or Disney Hostile) DVD Players?

solli asks: "After 13 years of relatively faithful service my Mitsubishi(!) VCR has finally kicked the bucket, and I am now thinking of moving on to DVDs. One of the only things preventing me from buying a DVD is the fact that some media companies like to make you watch FBI warnings, trailers, and ads before allowing you to view the actual movie (like Disney's Tarzan). Of course, there is such a large demand for region free players and other specialized needs that niche markets have developed to fill that demand. However, I have seen nothing about players that give you the freedom to navigate through the disk the way you want to, instead of how the content producer wants you to. What DVD players exist that let the viewer take full advantage of the nonlinear properties of the DVD media? Can any of the available players ignore the directives embedded on-disk to disable certain controls at particular times?"

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[aminorex]

> As technically-minded people, we should never back
> an inferior technology purely for political
> reasons.

Like avoiding genocide? Would you build a
website in COBOL.NET if it would avert a century
like the last one in which 170 million human beings
were killed by their own government? I'm reducing
your statement to absurdity in hopes that you will
realize that a balance of technical and political
considerations is required.